Monitors that are keepers?

From: Louis Schulman <louiss_at_gate.net>
Date: Wed Aug 9 19:37:22 2000

The ones I keep are the NEC Multisync II, Sony CPD-1304,
and the various versions and clones of the Commodore 1084.
And specialty ones, like the DEC 241 for color on the
Rainbow and Pro 350. Mitsubishi also made a DiamondScan
with abilities like the NEC, Sony and Commodore.

Most of yours I would throw out.

Louis

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:21:48 -0800, Mike Ford wrote:

>Which monitors are the ones to look for and keep?
>
>Yesterday I was looking at an old 20" NEC Multisync, I think the model was
>JC20 something, and I ended up leaving it behind (ran out of time, didn't
>know if it was a "good" monitor, or even worked). It "looked" neat, but old.
>
>Monitors, especially the big ones take up HUGE amounts of storage, don't
>stack well, and break easily if dropped. I have less than 20 right now, but
>they are still one of the first items I look to when I want some space.
>
>What are some of the good monitors to keep? (repeating myself I know)
>
>Right now I have
>
>(3) 2086A3SG Silicon Graphics monitors
>(2) HP 1097C
>1 20" RasterOPs
>1 Viking Moniterm monochrome two page
>1 Sigma Design high res gray scale (lab view I think, 1600x1200).
>1 Radius TPD
>(3) Radius Color Pivots
>(3) Radius B&W pivots
>1 CTX 1765 color
>1 Optiquest Q73 17" color
>(8) Apple 13 RGB high res
>half a dozen various small monochrome and NTSC
>1 Sony 1304
>1 Atari something
>
>Pretty obviously this is too many, and the list doesn't include all in one
>systems or a couple DEC VT420 terminals I just added. Many of them are in
>limbo, where I haven't gotten them to work yet, but I "think" they are OK,
>which isn't quite good enough to sell them or use them.
>
>I want to have monitors for everything I have to play with, which includes
>an IBM 5150 and a HP 735/50, but have pretty much decided I am NOT going to
>start collecting Commodore or Atari (very much, maybe an Amiga and
>something like a 1200XL). Suggestions?
>
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 09 2000 - 19:37:22 BST